captured via Helicopter: Seized Galaxy Leader ship in Yemen's Hodeidah port area - owner | The Straits Times
Meh! I thought this was going to be about reforming the squadron and you came up with a new name for the squadron leader. Grand Poobah would have been my suggestion.
Bigger story: insurance rates on shipping are going to skyrocket to unaffordable levels, if offered at all. No shipping= no global trade. Without the USNavy having actual teeth in policing the seas vigorously, the age of globalization is tick-tick-ticking to a close. /tinfoil
" From the halls of montezuma to the shores of Tripoli " That whole area of NE /E Africa has been a pirate paradise since before the USMC sang about it. I was escorting tankers early 80s and they still have some anti piracy presence there. Just too many vessels to escort every one. Better off sending some negotiators in the shape of GBU
Maybe not technically, since they appear to have been military, but weren't their actions essentially those of a pirate? I mean, I don't think they were just out picking up some new cars. I would expect some kind of ransom attempt to be forthcoming.
The way the chopper landed, the way the guys moved, the way the video was taken......those weren't Somalian pirates high on Khat You just need to ask yourself if this is a false flag by our own guys to keep feeding the Israelis more money or another foreign government ..... and what was actually on the ship. That was a million dollar operation Television news is all sponsored bullshit. I don't believe it for a minute.
I have seen little coverage of this on major media, so if that was their intent, they missed the target. Sure, they covered the basics, but no follow up segments or 10-minute-long network news segments. Say this was a false flag. Now what? Where do you hide a 189m long ship in today's world? You can't just set it adrift. You can't hand it over to Iran, they won't even talk to the US or Israel much less coordinate something like that without it leaking to the world. Want to crew it and supply it? Good luck doing that without someone eventually finding out. You can't scrap it; someone would recognize it. Your only option is to sink it and hope the world forgets about it. I just don't see that as a realistic possibility, but don't let realities get in the way of your conspiracy theories.
